Sankt Moritz: Engadin - Corviglia - Oberengadiner Seenlandschaft

Sankt Moritz: Corviglia

Sankt Moritz: St. Moritzer - See mit - Dorf

Sankt Moritz: Engadin - Corviglia - Station Piz Nair

King Carl Gustaf of Sweden is only one of the many prominent guests of St. Moritz. St. Moritz is often called an Alpine metropolis. There are numerous luxury hotels, spas and upscale shops against an Alpine background of lakes and mountains.

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St. Moritz, which is in the Upper Engadine, at an elevation of 1,856 m, boasts plenty of sunny days. It was exactly this sun that was legally protected as the emblem of St. Moritz in 1930. St. Moritz was often ahead of the times - for example, the first electric light went on at Christmastime in 1878, the first golf tournament in the Alps took place here, in 1889 and one of the first ski lifts in Switzerland began running in 1935.

Sights such as the leaning tower, a remnant of the Mauritius Church from around 1500, or the Segantini Museum, offer a change from the life of luxury and the jet set.

Summer

In addition to indulging in traditional sports, such as hiking and climbing, holiday-makers can enjoy a spot of sailing, windsurfing, a rubber dinghy ride on the River Inn, tennis and horseback riding. And St. Moritz with a total of four golf courses is an absolute golfer's paradise in the Alps.

Winter

For winter sports enthusiasts there are 350 kilometres of pistes with a state-of-the-art infrastructure in the surrounding area. St. Moritz's 'house mountain', the Corviglia, boasts the steepest start slope in Switzerland with the Piz Nair Wall's 100 per cent vertiginous drop. Toboggan riders plunge down the icy run which is one of the oldest natural ice bob runs in the world. For winter hikers there are 150 km of winter walking trails and for cross-country skiers there is a track network of about 200 km.

Highlights

Segantini-Museum - dedicated to the painter Giovanni Segantini who spent the final five years of his life in the Engadine.

Bernina Express - by panorama train on the most scenic railway in Europe to the Puschlav.

Muottas Muragl - impressive view over the lake region of the Upper Engadine. In winter by toboggan from the summit to the valley station.

Piz Nair Wall - the start of the men's downhill (2003 World Championship) with a 100 per cent drop results in an acceleration from 0 to 130km/h in 7 seconds. Top skiing skills are a must.

Corviglia - where latest trends are celebrated, World Cup races carried out and gourmet dreams come true - on the home mountain of St. Moritz with its 3057-meter-high Piz Naire summit.

Taxi through an ice channel - on a thrilling taxi-bob-ride on the only natural ice bob run in the world.

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